Blind Leap of Faith

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I really have no idea how it happened, but my website, The Bird With Acrophobia is currently ranked 'dead first' on Yahoo and is now on the first page of Google for the search term of the same name. Maybe part of the reason is that it's a unique name for a website, so it's easier for Google to pick up.

However, since I'm doubtful that birds with a pathological fear of heights are in demand anywhere on the internet, I won't regard this as a significant milestone just yet. Not least because it all happened by accident rather than design. And it's still only within the first few weeks of the website going online so I have a long way to go.

Feels like I'm just spamming the internet...

Anyhow, since I've started to see some results, I've just spent literally the whole day, working like crazy on The Bird With Acrophobia, filling it with all sorts of waffle - some researched, some not so much (but I've taken pains to point it out if that is the case).

It's ironic, I had actually stopped working on The Bird With Acrophobia halfway through after realising I probably wasn't passionate enough to build a website around making money online. Plus, you can only beat a dead horse for so long and the 'earning money online' niche has probably been done to death many times over - and done better at that. I'm looking at you, WA.

I've also been working on another website, which has also been picked up by Google's radar. One of the blog posts on my website is currently ranked 9th on the 1st page of Google. Again, while it contains a keyword that I researched earlier on Jaaxy, I probably didn't mean for it to end up that way. Once again, accident and not design. But at least I'm getting somewhere, if blindly.

Took just over a week to get there. Not bad...

Having said that, I think I'm starting to get a real feel for how SEO works. I've tried a few things out as an experiment, so I guess I'll just have to wait for at least another couple of weeks and see where it takes me.

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I'm on page one, position one for four of my optimised pages. On a whim I decided to try typing in another phrase I'd used on one of the successful pages. Page one, position two. I then went to a page I didn't think I'd optimised at all - page one, position one. Good old Humminbird.

If I remember correctly, there was a webinar this weekend about Google Hummingbird and how to get around it. But I gave it a miss since I didn't want to get bogged down by information overload at this point in time.

So all the random rankings out of nowhere are the result of Hummingbird? I guess it explains how my website pages managed to get up there so fast.

Hey congrats. It's always a nice thing when we see our websites ranking well. Keep up the hard work and you'll get those birds singing beautifully. Interesting title, btw. Is it posted for review?

Cheers Rick.

Yes, it does feel great to see my website get ranked, but as I said, I'm not getting too carried away just yet. The hard work starts now.

I haven't posted the website for review. As for the website title, well... I used it back when I started blogging occasionally on Blogger. And then when I created a website of my own, I knew had to use that name again.

It's also an analogy in reference to how we as humans (or perhaps other creatures) are naturally capable of doing certain things, but don't, because of the irrational fear of something that holds them back from the doing. In this case, the Bird is scared of heights, so it won't fly.

I think it describes me pretty well, actually, so that's one reason why I chose the name. Plus, it sounds cool :).

That is a great way to look at it. Now I understand the title. Thanks for sharing and, yes, the name does sound cool...and intriguing.

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